By Kim McDarison In 2016, when Pete Spangler, then a Fort Atkinson resident and president of the nonprofit group Wisconsin Makers, Inc., purchased the former Whitewater Register newspaper building on Clay street in Whitewater, he had a vision of turning the building into a place where inventors, tinkerers and crafters...
Category: Art, culture
Whitewater: Fran Achen Art Exhibition slated
The Whitewater Arts Alliance has announced that it will be hosting the 14th Annual Fran Achen Juried Photography Exhibition. Organizers of the event have announced that they are looking for submissions for inclusion in the upcoming competition and art show. The event is sponsored by the Whitewater Arts Alliance. According to information...
Welcome to our new advertiser: City of Jefferson Historical Society Museum
Fort Atkinson Online LLC would like to extend a warm welcome and heartfelt thank you to our new advertiser: City of Jefferson Historical Society Museum, 317 S. Main St., lower level, Jefferson. The new click-through ad is found below and on the front cover of Fort Atkinson Online.
Whitewater: Public art project underway; boards available for pickup
By Kim McDarisonA Whitewater public art project is underway featuring boards that area artists are invited to turn into barn squares. According to Ashe McDarison, manager of the Whitewater Arts Alliance, the project is offered annually and has, in the past, featured such items as birdhouses, chairs and plywood scrolls, among...
Arts Alliance, Vinery class, social night kicks off barn square-themed public art project
By Kim McDarison Several participants attending the Whitewater Arts Alliance and The Vinery Stained Glass Studio class and social night created barn squares made of fused glass. Thursday marked the first in a series of ongoing projects offered through a collaboration between the alliance and the Whitewater-based stained glass studio. The series...